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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
Island native Jim McNerney (MBA ’75). Later, his résumé would include stints at blue-chip companies like Procter & Gamble, McKinsey & Co., and General Electric, where he led various divisions of the multinational giant (including GE Aircraft Engines) before leaving in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
a common language? Top management needs to place a higher value on legal literacy. Training and incentives are important. Potential problem areas can vary depending on industry and functional role, but they are easily recognizable if... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
letting go to do. What happened on that trip? I was having a helluva time attempting to scale a difficult rock face with someone belaying me from the top. In a short time the guy on belay, who is critical in this experience, got a sense of when I was beginning to lose... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
want to sell you. Cryptocurrencies have not yet reached that state. Digital financial transactions are commonplace now, but cryptocurrency, per se, is not something very large numbers of individuals or businesses are willing to trade for goods and services. In many... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
yes.” Pasricha, who thinks, writes, and speaks about intentional living, gave the 80 attendees a set of simple coping strategies to remain positive, find rest, and let go of the idea of rushing back to whatever life was before everything changed. “The corporate speak... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
50 years from now?” Both Druyan and Hao say the award has become quite prestigious among the world’s top entrepreneurs and venture capital firms, and winners are excited to be honored by HBS alumni. The event, which is open to the public,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
the right inputs to grow more and access the right markets to sell more. Co-ops are one way to do this (form a group to access credit for inputs and sell products in bulk), but they are notoriously messy and... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
on making vegetables irresistible for people who love eating meat. Julia: One thing that I would say is that when you walk in, it feels different right away. So you walk in and you see the menu of the day and then someone comes up and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
of the more expensive skin care brands. Moreover, although leading brands might be global, their appeal is not. In fragrances, every market’s list of its top 20 brands is unique. The top-selling fragrance in Germany, for instance, does... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
prominent LBO firm of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice -- as well as $10,000 in cash and in-kind professional services worth $10,000. The judges for the final competition included a number of HBS graduates and represented an array of top venture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
brashness, and her disarming way,” says LeFrak, who first met Russo in Paris four years ago when they were inducted into the Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World organization. “I can’t say that she is the most driven person I have ever met, but she’s View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
and the Cherokee reservation in northeastern Oklahoma, where he was a football player and top student—not a plant whisperer. It would be decades before Keen fully understood the role that growing things could play in educating others... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
speed of these changes, observing, "Nobody on the organizing committee had any idea, when the planning for this conference began several years ago, how central concepts such as interconnectivity and the Internet would be by the time we gathered here in 1996."... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
there are no continent-wide studies of this, a report last year by Adcorp, a workforce management company, found that in South Africa there were an estimated 470,000 private-sector job openings remain unfilled because of a lack of candidates with the View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Stanford Angels, convened the top thought leaders in the field of entrepreneurship for the landmark virtual conference, “Emerge Stronger: Lessons from the Pandemic for Investors and Entrepreneurs,” held May 12 and 13. More than 350 people... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg
write my to-do lists is very different, specifically tailored to what science says is the right way to write a list. You put your stretch goal—your biggest aspiration—at the top of the page. Under that, you... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
how to be better, on how to be present, on how to listen properly, how not to top what someone else has just said. So when someone says to you, “I'm having a difficult time with my child,” all of us immediately go, “Oh yes, I've got my... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
information-systems management. "The right time is during due diligence. At this point, the IT assets should not only influence the 'go/no-go' decision to merge but also the price of the merger or acquisition. After the merger, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry